Academy Award winner, Denzel Washington, announced this week that he, along with a star-studded cast of athletes, musicians and celebrities, will partner with the Boys and Girls Club of America to launch a new youth advocacy campaign called BE GREAT.
BE GREAT was created to address the serious dangers facing today’s youth, including academic failure, gang violence, teen pregnancy, poverty, drugs, weapons in schools, obesity and inadequate familial support. The BE GREAT campaign, which formally urges politicians and citizens to become a part of the solution to the American youth crisis, marks the first time in Boys and Girls Club history that alumni of its organization, 57% of whom credit the Club with saving their lives, are coming together to further the generation-changing efforts of the 102 year-old organization.
Washington, who says the Boys and Girls Club dramatically changed his own life, will be joined in the fight by fellow celebrities and Boys and Girls Club alumni Muhammad Ali, Swin Cash, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Michael Jordan, Queen Latifah, Mario Lopez, John Mellencamp, Edward James Olmos, Smokey Robinson, John Singleton, Ruben Studdard, Usher, Courtney Vance, Mark Wahlberg, and Kerry Washington.
The Boys and Girls Club of America is the nation’s largest youth development network. For more information about the Boys and Girls Club BE GREAT advocacy campaign, click here.
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